Thursday 13th October


This week at London's only weekly fusion of stand-up poetry, performance comedy and spokenword we bring you...erm, we should really keep this quiet, read it for yourself below...a show too good to tell everyone about...

Barry Jones and Stuart MacLeod a feature length set from the stars of the controversial new channel 4 show 'Dirty Tricks' - the Scottish underground magicians unleash their unique brand of dark, surreal, bizarre comedy magic.


"Subversive magicians Barry Jones and Stuart MacLeod boldly go where others fear to tread. Watch and marvel." - Scotland on Sunday


"undeniably inventive." - The Sunday Times



 


 


 


Liz Bentley: Winner of the SHORTFUSE POETRY IDOL RIVAL IDOLS contest. performs her own unique brand of life-affirming comedy. '*****' - Three Weeks


 


 


 


 


Dean Wilson: writing with attitude and edge, with a strong and alternative sense of the humour of the everyday.  


 


 


 


 


 


 


With Resident Host:


NATHAN PENLINGTON-


‘A natural performer, witty, inventive, stylish and original’ - Rob Newman 


‘Consistently original and accessible’ – Chortle



Every Thursday @ The Camden Head, Camden Walk, Islington, London, N1

Tube: Angel. or click here for details of bus routes.


Doors: 8.30pm. Admission: £5 waged / £3 concessions.


SOME SHOWS DO SELL OUT AND THIS COULD BE ONE OF THOSE SHOWS- so, if there is a show you really don't want to miss our advice is to reserve tickets with us in advance. Just email your full name, the number of tickets you require, and a contact telephone number to: tickets@shortfuse.co.uk. We will hold them for you on the date of the show, they will be available for collection upon payment at the door between 8pm and 8.30pm.


THERE WILL ALSO BE A LIMITED NUMBER OF TICKETS AVAILABLE ON THE DOOR


Thursday 20th October: Andrew Bailey, Suzanne Andrade, and Ritchie Scurvey.


Thursday 27th October: POETRY IDOL(tm) 6 featuring:


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Elvis McGongal


Brett Van-Toen


Kate Fox


Kali Hughes


Wayne Smith


How does it work?
Six performers new to SHORTFUSE will perform for 10 minutes each, and then the audience will vote for their favourite acts. The winning two acts will both be given a full length paid set later in the year. Previous winners have gone on to secure regular full length sets at various other spokenword events including Express Excess, Apples & Snakes, plus 5 star Edinburgh Fringe shows. See www.20six.co.uk/poetryidol for more information.


Thursday 3rd November: Logan Murray, Niall O'Sullivan, and Katie Southall.


Thursday 10th November: Marian Pashley, Paul Lyalls, and Rebecca Sabin.


Thursday 6th October


As a mark of respect for the once a year National Poetry Day, here at SHORTFUSE - London's ONLY weekly fusion of stand-up poetry, performance comedy and spokenword - we bring you, erm, less poetry than usual from three three fantastic acts:

Fortnight and Unit - bring you sketches and shenanigans. Positive press for past shows: 'Bold, original and fresh…deliciously funny too' - The Scotsman, 'May well produce big things' - Sunday Times, 'Infects the audience with so much laughter someone should call a paramedic' - The Guardian


 



 


Brains and Virgin present The Bare Leg Club: avant-popstars combine beats and off all walls comedy into something very very funny and unique.


 


 


 



Rhian Edwards: winner of the 1st SHORTFUSE POETRY IDOL contest, an extremely talented writer and performer who combines word play and characterisation into tightly observed poetry and song.


 


 


With Special Guest Host:


Ritchie Scurvey


55-year-old alcoholic anarchist Punk Poet Ritchie Scurvey, ex-bassist with earthmoving 70s punk band ‘Dick Scurvey and the Cocksmiths’, lives on a floor in Hackney. Ritchie spits lines like ‘Maggie Thatcher, Maggie Thatcher, from what reptilian egg did they hatch her?’ and alerts kids to the evils of heroin with ‘Socky the Drugs Puppet’ outside schools throughout London.

Eschewing sell-out ‘paid’ gigs (entirely through choice), he makes regular appearances at revolutionary open mic night ‘WORDSSOANGRY’ at the Hammersmith Soyuz, and since winning Poetry Idol has also appeared at Express Excess, ‘Utter’ and the Clerkenwell Literary Festival.



Tube: Angel. or click here for details of bus routes.


Doors: 8.30pm. Admission: £5 waged / £3 concessions.


SOME SHOWS DO SELL OUT AND THIS COULD BE ONE OF THOSE SHOWS- so, if there is a show you really don't want to miss our advice is to reserve tickets with us in advance. Just email your full name, the number of tickets you require, and a contact telephone number to: tickets@shortfuse.co.uk. We will hold them for you on the date of the show, they will be available for collection upon payment at the door between 8pm and 8.30pm.


THERE WILL ALSO BE A LIMITED NUMBER OF TICKETS AVAILABLE ON THE DOOR


Thursday 13th October: Barry Jones and Stuart MacLeod, Liz Bentley, and Dean Wilson. 


Thursday 20th October: Andrew Bailey, Suzanne Andrade, and Ritchie Scurvey.


Thursday 27th October: POETRY IDOL(tm) 6 - finalists to be announced after closing date for entries - 27th September...you still have time to enter yours.



 
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Thursday 20th October

This week at London's ONLY weekly fusion of stand-up poetry, performance comedy and spokenword we bring you:

Andrew Bailey - a feature length set from the alternative comedian’s alternative comedian. A fusion of sound sampling, a riot of props, and the unexpected.


 


 


Suzanne Andrade – winner of SHORTFUSE POETRY IDOL 5 and as featured of BBC Radio 3’s mixing it "Joyce Grenfell meets Throbbing Gristle" -  dark tales of contemporary unease set to a scratchy 1920’s soundtrack.

Ritchie Scurvey - 55-year-old alcoholic anarchist Punk Poet Ritchie Scurvey,
ex-bassist with earthmoving 70s punk band ‘Dick Scurvey and the Cocksmiths’,
and winner of SHORTFUSE POETRY IDOL 4 is trapped in the wrong decade, and
desperate for Arts Council funding.


With Resident Host:


NATHAN PENLINGTON-


‘A natural performer, witty, inventive, stylish and original’ - Rob Newman 


‘Consistently original and accessible’ – Chortle



Every Thursday @ The Camden Head, Camden Walk, Islington, London, N1

Tube: Angel. or click here for details of bus routes.


Doors: 8.30pm. Admission: £5 waged / £3 concessions.


SOME SHOWS DO SELL OUT AND THIS COULD BE ONE OF THOSE SHOWS- so, if there is a show you really don't want to miss our advice is to reserve tickets with us in advance. Just email your full name, the number of tickets you require, and a contact telephone number to: tickets@shortfuse.co.uk. We will hold them for you on the date of the show, they will be available for collection upon payment at the door between 8pm and 8.30pm.


THERE WILL ALSO BE A LIMITED NUMBER OF TICKETS AVAILABLE ON THE DOOR


Thursday 27th October: POETRY IDOL(tm) 6 featuring:


Spinmaster Plantpotfficeffice" />


Elvis McGongal


Brett Van-Toen


Kate Fox


Kali Hughes


Wayne Smith


How does it work?
Six performers new to SHORTFUSE will perform for 10 minutes each, and then the audience will vote for their favourite acts. The winning two acts will both be given a full length paid set later in the year. Previous winners have gone on to secure regular full length sets at various other spokenword events including Express Excess, Apples & Snakes, plus 5 star Edinburgh Fringe shows. See www.20six.co.uk/poetryidol for more information.


Thursday 3rd November: Logan Murray, Niall O'Sullivan, and Katie Southall.


Thursday 10th November: Marian Pashley, Paul Lyalls, and Rebecca Sabin.
14.10.05 11:22


Thursday 27th October

This week at SHORTFUSE, London's ONLY weekly fusion of stand-up poetry, performance comedy and spokenword, we bring you the lastest installment of our world envied:


 


SHORTFUSE POETRY IDOL 6


Featuring: Spinmaster Plantpotfficeffice" />


Elvis McGongal


Brett Van-Toen


Kate Fox


Kali Hughes


Wayne Smith


How does it work?
Six performers new to SHORTFUSE will perform for 10 minutes each, and then the audience will vote for their favourite acts. The winning two acts will both be given a full length paid set later in the year. Previous winners have gone on to secure regular full length sets at various other spokenword events including Express Excess, Apples & Snakes, plus 5 star Edinburgh Fringe shows. See www.20six.co.uk/poetryidol for more information.


With Resident Host:


NATHAN PENLINGTON-


‘A natural performer, witty, inventive, stylish and original’ - Rob Newman 


‘Consistently original and accessible’ – Chortle



Every Thursday @ The Camden Head, Camden Walk, Islington, London, N1

Tube: Angel. or click here for details of bus routes.


Doors: 8.30pm. Admission: £5 waged / £3 concessions.


SOME SHOWS DO SELL OUT AND THIS COULD BE ONE OF THOSE SHOWS- so, if there is a show you really don't want to miss our advice is to reserve tickets with us in advance. Just email your full name, the number of tickets you require, and a contact telephone number to: tickets@shortfuse.co.uk. We will hold them for you on the date of the show, they will be available for collection upon payment at the door between 8pm and 8.30pm.


THERE WILL ALSO BE A LIMITED NUMBER OF TICKETS AVAILABLE ON THE DOOR



Thursday 3rd November: Logan Murray, Niall O'Sullivan, and Katie Southall.


Thursday 10th November: Marian Pashley, Paul Lyalls, and Rebecca Sabin.
25.10.05 12:03